Clans of Buchan & Mar
Aberdeenshire
The fertile shoulder of the country — Gordon, Forbes, Leslie.
Families seated in Buchan & Mar
- Clan BairdLawyers, soldiers, and statesmen of Lanarkshire and the north-east.
- Clan HayHereditary Constables of Scotland — second only to the crown.
- Clan LeslieSoldiers of fortune — Scots field-marshals across Europe.
- Clan GordonThe Cocks of the North — Earls and Dukes of Aberdeenshire.
- MitchellOf Michael — the diminutive that became its own surname in north-east Scotland.
- Clan ForbesLord Forbes — Scotland's senior baron, of Aberdeenshire.
Historic ties to Buchan & Mar
Families with historic but not core ground here.